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"The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Create It."

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SingularityU Czech Summit 2019

Be Part of the Exponential Future

Visionaries and futurists meet again in the Czech Republic. For the second time, leading-edge speakers from SingularityU will join Central European leaders and innovators for an unforgettable experience. Fasten your seat belts!

Reserve Your Front Seat to the Future!

The very first and successful SingularityU Czech was held the 5th and the 6th March 2018 in the heart of Europe - in Prague. It took place in the historic Palác Žofín and brought together more than 800 leaders from all over the world, from both the private and public sector, along with academical and civil audiences and talented students. Together we started a discussion about the future, global trends, exponential technologies and other topics that are about to change our world.

And we are back again! Save the date: April 1st - 2nd, 2019.

SingularityU Czech Summit brings again the world’s leading speakers and experts on exponentially accelerating technologies together with Czech and European business leaders of today and tomorrow, giving us the knowledge and insight we need to compete — and win — in an exponentially changing world.

SingularityU Czech Summit 2019

The SingularityU Czech Summit will be like no conference you’ve ever attended.

Over two days in April, you’ll hear from world experts in exponential technologies, from Silicon Valley
and beyond, and learn what the implications are for you. You’ll also discover the cutting edge of
technological progress taking place right here in the Czech Republic and in the whole Central Europe.
Your Summit experience is more than just talks, though.

Every ticket to the Summit includes:

Opportunities to meet the speakers

Networking opportunities

Possibilities to buy books by the speakers

Exclusive access to the Summit app

All evening receptions

Czech catering

Simultaneous translation (English-Czech)

And more!

Why should I join?

You will:

Meet with and learn directly from experts from Singularity University that is now considered „an Ivy League university from the future.“

Learn about the world’s breakthrough technologies that are shaking our lives and will impact our future.

Discuss, gain insights and form the future of your industry, and learn about the future of work, mobility, transportation, democracy, education, medicine, crime, and more...

Connect and exchange ideas with 700 European executives, innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, NGOs, students and policy-makers.

Meet people like you: curious about opportunities to apply the newest technologies, with the intent of growing their business in a changing environment and with the motivation to positively impact the world.

Be part of a change!

About Singularity University

Singularity University (SU) is a global learning and innovation community using exponential technologies to tackle the world’s biggest challenges and build an abundant future for all.

A certified benefit corporation headquartered at NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley, SU was founded in 2008 by renowned innovators Ray
Kurzweil and Peter H. Diamandis with program funding from leading organizations including Google, Deloitte, and UNICEF.

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Who stands behind SingularityU Czech Summit idea?

"There are 4 local businessmen who stand behind the idea of bringing the Singularity University into our country
and thanks to them it is possible to organise this extraordinary event" says Eva Hanakova, Managing Director of
SingularityU Czech Summit.

Tomáš Krsek (Founder of an investment fund BHM Group that invest into high value-added firms with sophisticated know-how)Martin Kúšik (Founder of the investment family office Odyssey 44)Radek Pokorný (Founding partner of the Prague-based law firm Pokorný, Wagner & Partner)Jan Sýkora (Chairman of the board of WOOD & Company, a leading investment bank in Emerging
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Amin Toufani

Amin Toufani

Amin is the CEO of T Labs. He brings a unique set of technological, entrepreneurial and policy perspectives to the dialogue about innovation. In what he calls exponential economics or “exonomics,” Toufani breaks the tech-driven changes happening in the modern economy into seven pillars: people, property, production, price, power, policy, and prosperity

Toufani pointed out that exonomics’ ultimate goal is to connect people and prosperity, and he shared his thoughts on how to do so. Amin has a degree in artificial intelligence from the University of British Columbia, an MBA from Stanford, and an MPA in economic policy from Harvard. He was formerly the director of strategy and Vice President of Strategic Relations at Singularity University. He has founded for-profit and social impact organizations in a range of domains including: artificial intelligence, peer to peer lending, bitcoin, human rights, international development, carbon offsetting, and solar energy. carbon offsetting, and solar energy.

Google Search ranks him as the world’s best guitar player – a title he readily rejects. In addition to his work at Singularity, he is building the World’s first hedge fund for the poor, as well as Reversopedia – a reverse encyclopedia composed of things we know we don’t know.

Larry Keeley

Larry Keeley

Corporate Innovations

Areas of Expertise● Innovation Guru● Smart manufacturing

About Larry

Larry Keeley is a strategist who has worked for over three decades to develop more effective innovation methods. Larry is President and co-founder of Doblin Inc, an innovation strategy firm known for pioneering comprehensive innovation systems that materially improve innovation success rates and innovation return
on investment. Doblin is now a unit of DeloitteConsulting LLP, where Keeley serves as a Managing Director.

Keeley lectures and publishes frequently on strategic aspects of innovation. Keeley’s book Ten Types of Innovation, the Discipline of Building Breakthroughs, from Wiley codifies much of the research and tradecraft that drives effective innovation, available in ten languages. Bloomberg Businessweek named Keeley one of seven Innovation Gurus that are changing the field, and specifically cited Doblin for having many of the most
sophisticated tools for delivering innovation effectiveness. They also separately selected Keeley as one of the 27 most influential designers in the world.

Keeley teaches graduate innovation strategy classes at the Institute of Design in Chicago. He lectures in executive education programs at Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He also lectures at many other business schools worldwide. Collectively, Keeley has helped educate more than 5,300 Masters or PhD level innovation specialists worldwide. In 2016, Keeley was named one of the five global Deloitte Creative Tigers, used to deepen and shape the firm’s most valuable IP and client relationships.

Keeley was a Senior Fellow of the Center for Business Innovation in Boston. He was also a long time board member for Chicago Public Radio, where he worked to make it one of the most innovative public radio stations in the US.

Alex Gladstein

Alex Gladstein

Exponential Democracy

Areas of Expertise● GGC● Governance● Blockchain

About Alex

Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He has also served as Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. In his work Alex has connected hundreds of dissidents and civil society groups with business leaders, technologists, journalists, philanthropists, policymakers, and artists to promote free and open societies.

During his activities he bacame part of the global movement for freedom and against dictatorship and Alex’s writing and views on human rights and technology have appeared in media outlets across the world including The Atlantic, BBC, CNN, Fast Company, The Guardian, Monocle, NowThis, NPR, Quartz, TIME, WIRED, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal.

He has spoken at UC Berkeley, MIT, Parsons School of Design; the School of Visual, Stanford, and the European Parliament. Before joining HRF, he served as a foreign policy advisor in the British Parliament; and participated in Singularity University events from Berlin to Johannesburg. He has also spoken at a range of blockchain and cryptocurrency events about why bitcoin matters for freedom.

Alex is a magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University where he majored in International Relations and Middle Eastern studies.

Raymond McCauley

Raymond McCauley

Digital Biology, Future of Medicine

Areas of Expertise● Biotech● GGC-Food● GGC-Health● Digital Biology

About Raymond

Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Raymond McCauley is a scientist, engineer, and entrepreneur working at the forefront of biotechnology. Raymond explores how applying technology to life biology, genetics, medicine, agriculture’ is affecting every one of us. He is known for using storytelling and down-to-earth examples to show how quickly these changes are happening, right now. Raymond is the Chair of the Biotechnology at Singularity University, a Silicon Valley think tank devoted to training leaders about exponential technologies.

Co-founder and Chief Architect for BioCurious, the hackerspace for biotech, a not-for-profit where professional scientists, DIYbio hobbyists and entrepreneurs come together to design the next big thing to come out of a Silicon Valley garage. Part of the team that developed next generation DNA sequencing at Illumina, where he worked in bioinformatics, cancer sequencing, and personal genomics. His work and story have been featured in Wired, Forbes, Time, and Nature.

Bohdanna Kesala

Bohdanna Kesala

Art of Innovation & Disruption

Areas of Expertise● The Future of Art ● Art of Innovation and Disruption

About Bohdana

As Managing Director of International Summits, Bohdanna’s work is to bring influencers together to cross-pollinate regional, national, and global ideas that will grow into tech and social change for the betterment of us all.

After graduating from Indiana University-Bloomington, Bohdanna worked at Northwestern University as their Special Events Coordinator. There she met and worked with politicians, Supreme Court justices, and the brightest academic minds and witnessed the power of knowledge and change.

From there, she moved to San Francisco and received a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting from California College of Arts and an MFA in Painting from San Francisco State University. For the next decade Bohdanna concentrated on her art career. She exhibited her work in the US and Europe while also teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute. Bohdanna’s paintings focused on beauty and history and how they can bring people together visually.

Merging her creativity and passion to bring people together in collaboration, Bohdanna began working for The Thiel Foundation as their Event Curator, managing all aspects of their events from high level design, curating speakers, and building partnerships between other organizations. The Thiel Foundation is a private foundation created and funded by Peter Thiel, known as a co-founder of PayPal and early investor in Facebook. Thiel concentrates the bulk of his philanthropic efforts on what he sees as potential breakthrough technologies. The Thiel Fellowship (originally named 20 under 20) is intended for young visionaries under the age of 20 and offers them a total of $100,000 over two years as well as guidance and other resources to drop out of school and pursue other work, which could involve scientific research, creating a startup, or working on a social movement.

Some of Bohdanna´s specific highlights include: Managing all events for CNBC Transforming Tomorrow: a documentary focused on the Thiel Fellowship, working with Wired.com in producing events for ‘Teen Technorati’, a web series on The Thiel Fellowship, and producing events for Breakout Labs Unboxing: a showcase of BOL’s grantees. Bohdanna was also one of the architects of The Thiel Foundation Summit; a bi-annual assembly of young entrepreneurs and visionaries from around the world.

Working directly with entrepreneurs inspired Bohdanna to open 10 Forward Events, a full service event-curation firm specializing in producing innovative and one-of-a-kind events for the science and tech industry, startups, entrepreneurs, and VC firms. This endeavor ultimately brought her to SU

Pascal Finette

Pascal is Singularity University’s Chair for Entrepreneurship & Open Innovation and Co-Founder at radical Ventures. His work focuses on the intersection of technology, global impact, and culture; inspiring, educating and empowering entrepreneurs, corporate irritants and change makers to tackle the most intractable problems of our time.

He has spent his career pushing the boundaries of technology and passionately believes it can profoundly impact the betterment of humankind.

He got started on the net before there was a web browser, founded a series of technology startups, led eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe, launched a consulting firm helping entrepreneurs with their strategy & operations, and invested into early-stage tech startups. Pascal led Mozilla’s Open Innovation Lab, created Mozilla’s accelerator program WebFWD, and headed up Mozilla’s Office of the Chair. As Principal at Google.org, he invested into social impact organizations around the globe. Further, he founded the nonprofit organizations Mentor for Good and The Coaching Fellowship; the “GyShiDo” (Get Your S%#& Done) movement and publishes the opinionated newsletter, “The Heretic”, which is read by tens of thousands of change-makers globally. He’s the author of the published book “The Heretic – Daily Therapeutics for Entrepreneurs”.

Pascal frequently speaks and writes about the magic and potential which happens at the intersection of technology, culture & global impact. He is also a trained Co-Active executive coach working with clients on achieving their full leadership potential. Most of all – Pascal loves to work with changemakers who want to, and can, make things better.